Digital signage is still a pretty young industry, so it’s interesting to come across a note that says one of the software companies active in the sector just turned 25. Capital Networks Limited was started in 1991 in suburban Toronto by Bill Trainor, who still runs the company. […]
Thanks to an expanding DOOH industry as well as creative and open-minded customers, the BroadSign family has grown. As such, we’re putting a spotlight on the BroadSigners who build and maintain our quality line of innovative products, while keeping our customers’ networks running smoothly. […]
Turns out there are two interesting product releases coming out of E Ink this week at the display nerd show SID in San Francisco. I wrote a few hours ago about a new rich color e-paper display technology, but the company has also showed off a 32-inch flexible, lightweight display aimed at public transport and other public information systems. […]
Neil Willis is the CEO and founder of Hypersign, a digital signage software company located in Greenville, South Carolina. In this Sixteen:Nine Podcasts episode, Neil talks about a long career path that had very humble beginnings – working in the air force in Arkansas and sweeping floors at a big box store on weekends to help pay the family bills. […]
E Ink has announced what would seem to be a big breakthrough in its drive to bring full color to electronic paper, and the first target application for what’s called Advanced Color ePaper (or ACeP) is digital signage. The company is touting how, for the first time ever, an electrophoretic display (EPD) can produce full color at every pixel without the use of a color filter array (CFA). […]
Montreal-based media company Newad, which has a big digital out of home screen footprint through much of Canada, has announced a new spinoff company it says brings media targeting and a cost per view media placement model to digital OOH networks in this country. […]
Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. […]
Samsung is marketing its new Galaxy S7 Edge phone in Moscow by draping one full side of an office tower with an LED curtain wall and adding a top and bottom that makes it look like a Godzilla-sized version of the new phone. […]
Photo Credit: Wired Here’s a look at the new Apple flagship store in San Francisco, which appears to continue a trend toward using big digital visuals as part of the minimalist design aesthetic. The store officially opens tomorrow in Union Square. The place has 42-foot tall (yup) sliding doors at the entry, and a very large 6K video wall in an area called The Forum, reports Wired. […]
Atlanta-based solutions provider Convergent has re-packaged its marketplace offer and given it a new handle: Digital Signage As A Service, or DSaaS. That kinda sounds like a ski resort in Austria, but I assume people will talk it up as Dee-Sass and all will be fine. […]
Google announced at its annual I/O conference today that Android mobile apps from its Google Play app store will now run on ChromeOS devices like Chromebook laptops. Google is making the Play store, and the gazillion Android apps you can get on it, work on the Chrome operating system, which is also developed and supported by Google. […]
Guest Post: Michael Tutton, Crown Content I was brought once into a big digital signage project to provide content for a $250,000 display set-up, two hours before it was all set to go live. Sounds crazy, right? It was. […]
Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is the final part of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. […]
The arrival on the market of fine pixel pitch LED displays has sparked a big jump in shipments globally, but the competitive landscape is so crowded that total revenues have only jumped slightly, according to a new marketplace report by the research firm IHS. Total unit shipments for all pixel-pitch categories in the direct-view LED video market were up 15.6 percent year over year in 2015. […]
Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. […]
